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  • Cloak of Secrecy
    Charles Arthur
    In spite of its critical importance to social stability, the Ontario social welfare system has avoided scrutiny to a remarkable degree. In this book, the authors use their extensive experience as landlords to blow the cover off Ontario’s social welfare system. They show how the system is operated as what can best be described as a 'special welfare cult' whose insiders jealously...
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    17,52 €

  • Tennessee’s John Wilder
    Edward P. French / Edward PFrench / PEdward French / Rodney E. Stanley / Rodney EStanley
    The Honorable John S. Wilder has served the constituents of Tennessee for over forty-years, and this historical accomplishment serves as the foundation of this work. In his political life, Lieutenant Governor Wilder has directly or indirectly impacted some of the most important administrative and public policy decisions over this period of time. Through archival document analys...
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    56,07 €

  • California Politics
    Edgar Kaskla
    California is full of myths and legends, but its political system shouldn’t be. In this refreshingly critical take, Edgar Kaskla brings an analysis of power—how it is distributed, how it is used, and to what end—to bear on California’s political system and the many troubling issues it currently faces. Starting from the premise that California is in deep crisis politically, econ...
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    115,97 €

  • The Evolution of Ethiopian Absolutism
    Tsegaye Tegenu
    This book synthesis the development of the Ethiopian state and society at a particular historical stage: the appearance of a new type of power centralization synchronized with Ethiopia’s integration into an international state system and capitalist world economy. Adopting a system approach and analysis as a method of cognition, this book reviews major interpretation of the hist...
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    22,81 €

  • The Financial Administration Of The Colony Of Virginia
    Percy Scott Flippin
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    12,80 €

  • Take the Power to Change the World
    Daniel Bensad / John Holloway
    In this 144-page collection of essays, some of today's most important progressive thinkers - including John Holloway, well-known Marxist philosopher Daniel Bensaïd and theorist of liberation theology and the national question, Michael Löwy - discuss strategies to change the world. The Zapatista rebels and the Seattle demonstrators were the tip of an iceberg of social and politi...
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    13,87 €

  • The Intermarium
    Jonathan Levy
    Pub_AbstractText~: This thesis proposes an alternative governance structure for east central Europe - the Intermarium. The Intermarium is based on the development of a supplementary federal structure capable of controlling factionalism and nationalism utilizing concepts from James Madison’s Tenth Federalist. In particular, James Madison’s approach to mitigating and preventing ...
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    57,52 €

  • Indonesia
    The success or failure of democratic reform in Indonesia is a key question for Indonesia itself and for the surrounding region. Although Indonesia’s transition to democracy holds out the promise of good governance, this cannot be taken for granted - as the recent military takeover in Thailand shows. This book is about the challenge of making democracy work in Asia’s third-large...
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    39,97 €

  • Municipal Administration In The Roman Empire
    Frank Frost Abbott
    A fantastic academic study of what really made the Roman empire so successful, administration. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    50,55 €

  • Governors Speak
    Jack D. Fleer / Jack DFleer
    Governors in the United States are becoming prime policy makers in state and national politics. They preside over vast and increasingly important administrative structures through numerous appointments of key personnel and the management of growing budgets. Governors provide leadership for state legislatures by advocating their policy agendas, and by mobilizing public opinion a...
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    99,39 €

  • Local Politics
    Angelika Vetter
    Local Politics: A Resource for Democracy in Western Europe examines the relationship between local institutional design and citizens’ attitudes toward democracy. Translated by Angelika Vetter, this book is a unique contribution to traditional political culture research, which has focused primarily on national politics. As the last stage in the nation-state administrative appara...
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    141,56 €

  • Local Politics
    Angelika Vetter
    Local Politics: A Resource for Democracy in Western Europe examines the relationship between local institutional design and citizens’ attitudes toward democracy. Translated by Angelika Vetter, this book is a unique contribution to traditional political culture research, which has focused primarily on national politics. As the last stage in the nation-state administrative appara...
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    64,05 €

  • Managing America’s Cities
    Roger L Kemp
    This work describes the operations of a typical municipal government and examines the many productivity trends that are occurring in city halls across America. Much of the focus is on the increasing need for planning in city government to ensure that productivity goals are met. It thoroughly examines the roles of the council, manager, and clerk in promoting increased productivi...
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    41,85 €

  • Democracy and Its Limits
    Howard Handelman
    Eleven papers drawn from a May 1997 conference of the same name (sponsored by the U. of Wisconsin’s Center for Latin America and Center for International Studies) are presented by Handelman (political science, U. of Wisconsin) and Tessler (political science, U. of Arizona). Somehow managing to avoid a detailed discussion of U.S. foreign policy, the papers discuss structural and...
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    34,84 €

  • Budgeting in the States
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    121,23 €

  • Strategic Planning
    James T. Jr. Ziegenfuss / James TJrZiegenfuss
    'Direction,' 'Destination,' and 'Decisions' are the outcomes of strategic planning, a process used to formulate strategy by helping leaders and employees to define their organization’s path, their desired future, and the actions required to move forward. This work presents a series of illustrations, cases, and 'lessons learned' from strategy formation and strategic planning exp...
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    60,10 €

  • Crook County Department of Corruption
    William M. Jarding / William MJarding
    This is one man’s experience of working within the corrupt environment of the Cook County Department of Corrections. ...
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    25,73 €

  • Lethal American Confusion
    William R. Taylor
    Question: Which is the most malignant of the twenty defenses against confusion described in Lethal American Confusion?Answer: 'Find-an-enemy-and-lose-your-confusion.'Learn the dangers of this defense, as you survey over eighty areas of confusion in the war on terrorism. You will also weigh forty reform recommendations from experts trying to improve our protection here and overs...
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    39,97 €

  • The Dynamic Dominion
    Frank B Atkinson / Frank B. Atkinson / Frank BAtkinson
    The Dynamic Dominion tells the dramatic story of Virginia’s political transformation from the Second World War to the Reagan Revolution. The cradle of American democracy - and thus of the democratic movement that is sweeping the globe today - the venerable Old Dominion has emerged again in the second half of the 20th century as a dynamic political pace setter for the nation. ...
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    166,46 €

  • The Dynamic Dominion
    Frank B. Atkinson / Frank BAtkinson
    The Dynamic Dominion tells the dramatic story of Virginia’s political transformation from the Second World War to the Reagan Revolution. The cradle of American democracy - and thus of the democratic movement that is sweeping the globe today - the venerable Old Dominion has emerged again in the second half of the 20th century as a dynamic political pace setter for the nation. ...
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    70,98 €

  • The City at Stake
    Raphael J. Sonenshein / Raphael JSonenshein
    The City at Stake tells the dramatic story of how the nation’s second-largest city completed a major reform of its government in the face of a deeply threatening movement for secession by the San Fernando Valley. How did Los Angeles, a diverse city with an image of unstructured politics and fragmented government, find a way to unify itself around a controversial set of reforms...
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    56,75 €

  • Empowered Participation
    Archon Fung
    Every month in every neighborhood in Chicago, residents, teachers, school principals, and police officers gather to deliberate about how to improve their schools and make their streets safer. Residents of poor neighborhoods participate as much or more as those from wealthy ones. All voices are heard. Since the meetings began more than a dozen years ago, they have led not only t...
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    56,95 €

  • Good States, Problem States
    Arliss Roaden / Jack Frymier
    Some states are governed better than other states. Whatever it is that state governments do, some do it more effectively and more consistently than other states. And that is a difficult message to share. 'Problem states' simply do not want to hear about it. They do not want to be compared, head on, with states that do better at governing than they do. They want to say: '...
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    37,85 €

  • The Community Leadership Handbook
    James F. Krile / James FKrile
    Tools for people seeking to improve their communitiesThis significant guide puts the tools of democracy into everyone’s hands. Based on the best of Blandin Foundation’s 20-year experience in developing community leaders, it gives community members-like yourself—the tools to bring people together to make changes.  ...
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    43,16 €

  • The Community Leadership Handbook
    Duane RLund / Gordon Curphy / James F. Krile / James FKrile
    Tools for people seeking to improve their communitiesThis significant guide puts the tools of democracy into everyone’s hands. Based on the best of Blandin Foundation’s 20-year experience in developing community leaders, it gives community members-like yourself—the tools to bring people together to make changes.  ...
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    37,13 €

  • The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865
    Charles W. McCurdy / Charles WMcCurdy
    A compelling blend of legal and political history, this book chronicles the largest tenant rebellion in U.S. history. From its beginning in the rural villages of eastern New York in 1839 until its collapse in 1865, the Anti-Rent movement impelled the state’s governors, legislators, judges, and journalists, as well as delegates to New York’s bellwether constitutional convention ...
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    63,60 €

  • Integrated Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas in Central European Countries
    Sophia Davidova
    This book presents the exciting results of original research on the integrated development of agriculture and rural areas in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Including academics from both Western and Central European Countries, the collection brings together their joint work on an extensive three-year project. ...
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    163,92 €

  • The State of the States
    Carl E. Van Horn
    In this era of renewed federalism, state governments take center stage advancing ambitious legislative agendas, pioneering innovative public policy, and providing much needed political leadership. The “devolution revolution” of the 1990s transferred many of the nation’s principal domestic programs from federal to state management, often without transferring the necessary fundin...
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    82,51 €

  • Pennsylvania Elections
    John J. Kennedy / John JKennedy
    Pennsylvania Elections: Statewide Contests, 1950-2004 provides a systematic and thorough analysis of elections in Pennsylvania. The work focuses on voting trends across the state, analyzes the political geography of the state, and develops a narrative of the people and places that have shaped these elections. ...
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    71,09 €

  • Louisiana’s Governmental Cesspool
    Paul Loy Hurd
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    26,75 €


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